Davezine 14, 1st excerpt.

I'm writing a zine, my first one in ten years. This is a bit I'm writing about a grudge project from 10 years ago, which starts with explaining my former musical career and its role in all of it.


"Long story short, this effort to push my musical 'career' at the exclusion of all common sense led to my quixotic effort to try something I had never seriously tried before:
I wanted to win City Paper’s Best Musical Artist.

"Looking back…I never had a shot at this. I know this now. But at the time, it was a huge labor that I spent quite a bit of time trying to make happen. I’m not above putting my energy behind a stupid or hopeless cause. After all, what is the point of living if you aren’t willing to do something pointless at a 100 miles an hour once in a while? I made flyers, I blogged about it, I posted to my Myspace page, I told all my friends from the Pub where I worked, I shoved ballots in front of people to get them to vote for me…it was a push like I’d never pushed before. I tried so hard, in fact, that when I didn’t win so much as an honorable mention, I just said 'to hell with it.' And while I can’t say it was the whole reason for the birth of this project, it was at least a catalyst."